COERCIVE PERSUASION

by David Nuttle

PRC's (China's) military forces are partly for show and deception to motivate potential enemies to damage their economies by excessive military spending. The primary means of attack, for the PRC, is coercive persuasion. They will use CCP (Chinese Communist Party) agents and local agents-of-influence, recruited and managed by CCP teams, to cause social chaos, food insecurity, inflation, and growing demands for a socialist state. The technique used is called "frog boiling." Frogs (victims) in a pot of water have the water slowly heated so by the time a boiling temperature is reached, it is too late for the frogs to jump out. We are now experiencing increasing demands for socialism, and our social chaos is extensive; e. g. political & racial conflicts, infanticide, hate speech, political assassination, men in women's sports, LGBTG/ Tans promotion, DEI/ CRT/ "woke" demands, riots, and so on. CCP teams are here along with a "flood" of Chinese university students and CCP agents working at federal agencies, defense industries, and universities.

The CCP has long researched and develop the arts of coercive persuasion. Techniques that have employed include 1) Unfreezing and refreezing thought; 2) Thought reform as well as control; 3) Psychological attacks; 4) Interpersonal pressures; 5) Alteration of beliefs; 6) Control of social environments; 7) Manipulation; 8) Interactive behaviors; and 9) Absolute control. As a communist state becomes a reality, forced labor, isolation, torture, and then democide (mass murder by government) are used to solidify communist control. Examples of all the above have been documented for the PRC, USSR, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Venezuela. The U. S. is in the beginning stages of coercive persuasion by the CCP.

A PRC defector gave the U. S. plans & operational details for a PRC prison. A model was constructed & volunteers selected for a research project on POW resistance factors. I made

the decision to participate in a 5-day POW simulation using PRC's techniques. To start in a realistic manner, each volunteer experienced a brutal arrest at an unexpected time. We were then taken to the PRC model prison, searched, stripped naked, and interrogated for several hours. I would initially only speak in a Montagnard tribal language I knew, Dega, so the interrogators for the test had a difficult time. At the end of the day, we were each individually locked in a cell with a very bright light, wet concrete floor, no chair, bed, or cot, and only a honey bucket for waste. The cell temperature was about 50 degrees F and the light could not be turned off. Thus, we were forced to sleep in the nude on a cold, wet concrete floor under a bright light w/ no mat or blanket.

Each morning, as test POWs we had to take a 5-minute shower in ice-cold water. Every day was interrogation testing and the second day I communicated in English for purposes of this POW resistance test. The CCP was known to have exploited injuries and exposed POWs to diseases to make their forced confinement filled with suffering. For this aspect of the test, our food was heavily "doctored" to give each POW volunteer severe stomach aches and serious diarrhea. For the torture simulation, the test guards tied my body in extremely twisted shapes. Torture at night was based on tying me and inserting me into a garbage can in horizontal position. The test guards would then beat on my garbage can about every hour all night. I actually welcomed my garbage can experience since the can helped retain my body heat to warm me against the very cold temperatures of my cell where I had to otherwise sleep on a wet concrete floor in the nude.

The above test lesson for me was that mental attitude is the secret to survival as a POW. I had a friend, Mike B., who was a POW, for 5-years, in the Hanoi Hilton prison operated by Viet communists. He told me his survival secret was keeping his mind diverted from torture by detailed planning of his future in his mind. Mike also advised that extreme torture could only be reduced by giving communist interrogators information of no intelligence value so they could get rewarded for doing a good job. As an example, Mike told me one fellow POW gave his interrogators his complete version of his college engineering text over a 3-year time period. One lesson from long exposure to communist forces is that they are quite willing to abuse, torture, and kill. My lesson from my above said experience is that suffering does not need to be learned, it comes naturally!